Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega appoints Gaddafi’s nephew as new ambassador to Turkey
“Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Comrade Mohamed Lashtar as our Nicaragua’s ambassador to the people and government of Turkey,” announced the dictator’s wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo
Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro starts his TV show with “Sira”, his new companion with artificial intelligence (AI), who will present the news during the broadcast of the dictator.
Maduro and Sira’s “show” airs every Monday at 5 p.m. local time. “They accuse us of being robots, of not existing,” said the dictator at the presentation. “No, it’s not artificial intelligence, it’s popular intelligence, it’s revolutionary intelligence.”
Two new murders bring the number of women murdered in Cuba this year to 26
We are three times as many feminicides registered on the same day in 2022.
El Salvador cuts taxes on AI technology and companies
The law exempts qualifying companies from paying income taxes, capital gains and local taxes, as well as customs duties on imported goods that technology companies need. “With these exceptions, we are facilitating the development of the technology sector in our country and also manufacturing, which will help create a new industry,” said President Bukele, who has turned the Central American country into a burgeoning hub for innovation Year 2021 together with the US dollar as the first nation in the world.
The Nicaraguan regime indignantly rejects the new ambassador of the European Union
The EU ambassador to Nicaragua, Bettina Muscheidt, was expelled in 2022. Now the Nicaraguan regime has decided to revoke the license of the new ambassador to the European Union, Fernando Ponz. “In the face of your bold and brazen interference sanctioning the imperialist and colonialist positions that characterize the European Union, the government on 18 Ponz as ambassadors of this overwhelming power,” Denis Moncada, Nicaragua’s foreign minister, said in a letter.
Calls for more than 23 years in prison for Chávez’s “nurse”.
Both she and her 19-year-old husband were found guilty by the US judiciary of money laundering and corruption in the United States. Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillén She had been extradited from Spain in 2022 and convicted by courts in Fort Lauderdale, South Florida. “The nature and circumstances of his involvement in a massive money laundering and corruption scheme involving more than $1 billion in bonds and more than $100 million in bribes deserve strong condemnation,” the prosecutor wrote.
Nurse Claudia Diaz and her husband, bodyguard Adrian Velasquez, were among the trusted associates of Hugo Chavez. They settled in Spain in 2016, three years after the death of Chávez, who was allegedly being persecuted by the regime Nicholas Maduro, as they explained in their defense in court in Miami. Chavez’s nurse, a 49-year-old former naval officer, was appointed Venezuela’s national treasurer by the late former president between 2011 and 2013. The laundered bribes, totaling more than $100 million, had been transferred to South Florida through foreign bank accounts, a Miami yacht company and a fashion company.
Paolo Manzo, April 19, 2023
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